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diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm index 287ae25997..a60eef1143 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2015 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org> ;;; Copyright © 2015 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> +;;; Copyright © 2015 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ #:use-module (guix build-system perl) #:use-module (gnu packages base) #:use-module (gnu packages perl) + #:use-module (gnu packages valgrind) #:use-module ((srfi srfi-1) #:select (last))) (define-public zlib @@ -513,3 +515,35 @@ compression library.") (description "IO-Compress provides a Perl interface to allow reading and writing of compressed data created with the zlib and bzip2 libraries.") (license (package-license perl)))) + +(define-public lz4 + (package + (name "lz4") + (version "131") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4/archive/" + "r" version ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 "1vfg305zvj50hwscad24wan9jar6nqj14gdk2hqyr7bb9mhh0kcx")) + (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (native-inputs `(("valgrind" ,valgrind))) + (arguments + `(#:test-target "test" + #:parallel-tests? #f ; tests fail if run in parallel + #:make-flags (list "CC=gcc" + (string-append "PREFIX=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))) + #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases + (delete 'configure)))) + (home-page "https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4") + (synopsis "Compression algorithm focused on speed") + (description "LZ4 is a lossless compression algorithm, providing +compression speed at 400 MB/s per core (0.16 Bytes/cycle). It also features an +extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core (0.71 Bytes/cycle). +A high compression derivative, called LZ4_HC, is also provided. It trades CPU +time for compression ratio.") + ;; The libraries (lz4, lz4hc, and xxhash are BSD licenced. The command + ;; line interface programs (lz4, fullbench, fuzzer, datagen) are GPL2+. + (license (list license:bsd-2 license:gpl2+)))) |